Hi tfreeman and folks, Tks for your comment. The floppys have been standing there for years. I also doubt their quality gone already. Also ran $ fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 /dev/fd0H1440: No such file or directory # fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 /dev/fd0H1440: No such file or directory B.R. SL > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > On formatting floppy, most of the floppies in my possession failed > to > > get through verification, such as > > > > Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read 8192 > > Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 51, expected 18432, read > 10240 > > Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read > 14336 > > etc. > > > > Format has no problem. Please advise how to fix them. > > > > TIA > > Personal opinion. If the disk fails verification, pitch it in the > trash. I > pretty much gave up on floppys a couple years ago due to getting a > rediculous rate of verification errors. >
